“I’ve heard there’s an incident happening on the streets.”
At Cryer’s words, Olivia’s ears perked up.
“Heard?”
“Aren’t you going to ask what kind of incident?”
“I know what it is. But, did you hear?”
Repeating the same question and shining her eyes, Olivia directly asked.
“Who did you hear it from?”
Although it was an unusual question, from Olivia’s perspective, it was a natural doubt.
Since he stayed in this palace, she had never seen him converse with anyone other than her.
Cryer casually shrugged his shoulders and replied.
“I have ears, too.”
“Did you eavesdrop?”
“Is it eavesdropping?”
At his ambiguous answer, Olivia blinked her eyes, then soon nodded.
“Ah, you just overheard.”
His quick acceptance prompted Cryer to ask back.
“Aren’t you going to ask more?”
“You mentioned it before.”
“What?”
“Before you reincarnated this life.”
Olivia, who had been counting on her fingers, began to drift into the past.
It was probably her third return, after her second death.
When the palace fell and she bowed her head long in front of Cryer’s sword.
Until then, Olivia, who had tried to maintain the dignity of the princess even in the face of death, asked.
‘How did you find me?’
Yes, she was definitely in the deepest part of the palace.
A secret space handed down only in the royal family, and that too, only to the emperor and the next emperor.
But Cryer, as if he knew where she was, found her in a single attempt.
Olivia, who recalled up to that point, hardened her face, frowned, and gave her lowest voice.
“You heard my breathing through the wall.”
Cryer’s eyebrow ends barely waved. After staring at Olivia for a while, he opened his mouth.
“Don’t tell me you’re mimicking me just now.”
She had every right to be flustered at his reaction, but Olivia nodded her head shamelessly, her cheeks slightly flushed.
“Then who else. It’s you, you. You said you heard my breathing through the wall.”
She shook her head and finished her sentence.
“So, the next time I die, I tried to hold my breath as much as I could.”
“And then?”
“And then they heard the sound of my heart beating.”
As Olivia closed her mouth, silence fell between them.
They weren’t a couple comfortable with silence, so Olivia, who had held her tongue for a while, couldn’t bear it any longer and was about to open her mouth, but then she closed it.
Because it seemed Cryer was deep in thought.
In the tomblike silence, when Olivia finished one bundle of documents and reached out to another bundle, Cryer, who had been maintaining a long silence, parted his lips.
“I do have better hearing than most people, but I can’t hear a person’s heartbeat or breath through the wall.”
At that, Olivia’s long eyelashes fluttered like butterfly wings in a strong wind.
Olivia, who had been mumbling with her mouth for a while, suddenly stood up.
“What? So, everything you said back then was a lie?”
She barely held back the next words that came up to the tip of her tongue.
Lying to someone facing death, such a barbaric thing to do!
And as if reading her thoughts, Cryer shook his head.
“I’m not so rude as to lie to someone on the brink of death.”
“Ah, I see……”
Olivia, who had been nodding as if relieved, paused.
If Cryer at that time didn’t lie, was Cryer now?
“I’m not lying now, either.”
“Then?”
This time, the answer didn’t come back immediately.
Cryer, who looked as if he was reconsidering something, slowly clenched and unclenched his fist, a deep crease forming between his brows.
Watching him, Olivia left the documents and grabbed a few snacks that were within reach.
Olivia, with hands full of refreshments like the plump cheeks of a squirrel in autumn, immediately approached Cryer.
“Princess? What….”
The moment her foot hit his, she spilled the refreshments in her hand.
His leg was a mess with crumbled snacks, but Olivia didn’t care. Rather, she just picked one up and pushed it into Cryer’s mouth.
“Eat this.”
His eyebrows rose at the unexpected insistence, but Olivia was firm.
“Eat it. It’s good for your brain.”
“I was just lost in thought….”
Even before his words ended, Olivia quickly nodded her head.
“I know that too. Just…”
She just wanted to do something because it seemed like he would sink back into his gloomy thoughts alone.
But Olivia couldn’t bring herself to say the rest.
As soon as she wet her lips, Cryer deliberately changed the subject without prying further.
“Princess.”
“Hmm?”
His gaze lingered on the leg, a mess with various colors.
“It seems like you’ve lost a lot as a princess.”
Cryer didn’t say specifically what was lost, but Olivia readily spoke.
“Oh, like dignity, body, etiquette, things like that?”
She picked up one of the snacks she had spilled on Cryer’s leg and chewed it with a dry laugh.
As soon as it was in her mouth, it melted on her tongue and she savored the aftertaste of the sweet thing.
“I already know that I don’t need anything in front of you. So, I decided not to do meaningless things.”
Cryer, who was watching the bitter smile spread on Olivia’s lips, reached out.
His fingertips grazed Olivia’s mouth as she instinctively shrank back, and he soon licked the tip of his finger.
“Sweet.”
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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